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Developing Logical Thinking: The Place of Strategy Games
This article outlines how strategy games can help children develop logical thinking, using examples from the NRICH website.
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A Brief History of Time Measurement
Noticing the regular movement of the Sun and the stars has led to a desire to measure time. This article for teachers and learners looks at the history of humanity's need to measure things.
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Geometry and Gravity 2
This is the second of two articles and discusses problems relating
to the curvature of space, shortest distances on surfaces,
triangulations of surfaces and representation by graphs.
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Research Articles
Find out about the research activities of the NRICH team and other colleagues here.
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Fit These Shapes
5 to 11
What is the largest number of circles we can fit into the frame
without them overlapping? How do you know? What will happen if you
try the other shapes?
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Enriching Patterns
Following on from a workshop at an MA Easter conference, Jennifer
and Jenni talked about the way in which the website is made more
accessible to teachers who want to plan threads of activity.
Here’s a pattern- based theme.
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Dice, Routes and Pathways
This article for teachers discusses examples of problems in which
there is no obvious method but in which children can be encouraged
to think deeply about the context and extend their ability to think
mathematically, especially geometrically.
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Seeing Rhombuses
7 to 11
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a rhombus.
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Geometry and Gravity 1
This article (the first of two) contains ideas for investigations.
Space-time, the curvature of space and topology are introduced with
some fascinating problems to explore.